Festoon
Kathrin Kur
1975 born, lives and works
in London www.katrinkur.com
Education
1994-95 Philosophy,
French, Film studies FU Berlin, Germany
1996-97 Guest
student Fine Art, HDK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1997-00 BA
Hons, Critical Fine Art Practice, Brighton University, Brighton, First Class
Honours
1999 Exchange
student at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA
2000-01 C-Programming
certificate, Lambeth College, London
2002-04
MA
Cultural and Critical Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London,
Distinction
Professional
since 2001 freelance
creative director and producer for animated and interactive content on
largescale public LED displays
such as Piccadilly Circus with companies such as
streetvision and blip, London
2000-01 Assistant
Peter Cornwell, London
Design
Manager, Touch Limited, London
1999 Internship
Webdesign+Programming, ZKM Karlsruhe
1996-97 Assistant
Sibylle Hofter, Artist, Berlin
Projects/Exhibitions
2006 currently shortlisted
for artist residency, Cite International, Paris
in
preparation: "Moviebank", with flunk in collaboration with max-msp/sound artist
Pelado
2005 "central heating" a
music project with Simon Garrod
mediasurface
using LED strips, transpublic, Ars Electronica 2005, with flunk
"Halo",
LED gallery, curated by flunk, phonefixers, London, England
Kawarnia
Europa, Lodz, Poland
"Runners
up", LARK/flunk, interactive simulation, LED display and RFID technology,
Making things Public, ZKM, Karlsruhe,
Germany
"Inspector
London", JavaMuseum
Kawarnia
Europa, Berlin, Germany
2004 founding member
of the artist group LARK/flunk, www.flunk.com
"Inspector
London" and "Rota-tv", a video based on Duchamps rotoreliefs and TV shopping
channels, at ISECA, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 "Inspektor
Berlin/ Inspector London", on eBay with Christian Hasucha, S. Hofter, Rowena
Easton
"Festoon",
photographic series, Poznan-Potsdam, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany
2002 Video Curator, "Metaplex", interactive
installation by Peter Cornwell, ICA, London, Ctrl Space, ZKM (Centre for Art
and Media Technology), Germany
"Biker
Bar", Web/photographic project with Sean Prentice
http://www.thebikerbar.rawcity.net
2001 "Night-Glo", lenticular print, and "12/11",
photographic series Spectacular, London, Elephant and Castle shopping Centre,
also curator of exhibition
2000 Recollection
Website, Design Council Archive, Brighton, documents
http://www.documents.org.uk/documents/
"7m2",
digital print, Urban Lab 00, The Architecture Week, Contact Gallery, Brighton
1999 Triumph,
art exhibition, 40 artists, Redhill Motors, Brighton (participant, organiser,
design)
1997 camerawork for "Aurora",
a film by Sibylle Hofter, ZDF german television
Awards
2000 XPS Prize for digital
print, Brighton University